Vintage
Photographs - Machine Guns
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006
This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains photography of machine guns deployed during wartime.
Click here to read introductory notes relating to this section, including information on photograph sources. Use the sidebar to the right to select other categories of photos available within this section.
The photos reproduced below are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger copy within a separate window.
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 Marines
demonstrating the machine-gun carriage
(CNP) |
 Machine
gun in the commander's post of Zeppelin L-49
(CNP) |
 Machine
gun on a destroyer
(CNP) |
 Aeroplane
machine gun, loaded by French pilot Vedrines
(CPE) |
 Machine
gun crew
(CPE) |
 English
soldiers with a machine gun
(CPE) |
 An
Allied machine-gun detachment near Monastir
(CPE) |
 French
machine gun and men
(SR) |
 German
machine gun in an anti-aircraft position
(SR) |
 Belgian
machine guns drawn by dogs
(WW) |
 Lewis
machine gun ambush team in Mesopotamia
(WW) |
 Machine
gun outpost and barbed wire on the Upper Piave
(WW) |
 U.S.
machine gun in action in France
(WW) |
 Lewis
air-cooled machine gun
(NW) |
 Dogs
used to pull batteries of Belgian Lewis Guns
(NW) |
 Captured
Russian machine guns exhibited in Berlin
(NW) |
 U.S.
soldier examining a German machine gun at St. Mihiel
(HW) |
 British
seaplane armed with a machine gun
(GW) |
 Biplane
with machine gun in its bow
(GW) |
 Aircraft
fitted with quick-firing gun, manned by a marksman
(GW) |
 Belgian
forces bringing up machine guns
(GW) |
 German
quick-firing, anti-aircraft gun at work
(GW) |
 Maxim
Gun squad in action at Antwerp during the German bombardment
(GW) |
 Above-water
armaments of British submarines: a quick-firing gun
(GW) |
 Deck
of a German submarine after the quick-firing gun has lowered
(GW) |
 A
Maxim gun in action on the British Front in Flanders
(GW) |
 Machine-gun
section of Zouaves
(GW) |
 Wrecked
machine gun emplacement in a captured German trench
(GW) |
 British
machine gun section wearing anti-gas masks
(GW) |
 Belgian
machine-gunners wearing gas respirators
(GWS) |
 French
machine gun crew in a twig-lined trench
(GWS) |
 A
machine-gun used against German aviators in German S.W. Africa
(GWS) |
 French
soldiers using a machine gun in a trench at Neuville St Vaast
(GWS) |
 Machine
gun section of the Alpini in action
(GWS) |
 German
soldiers in Berlin examining a captured Russian machine gun
(GWS) |
 French
machine-gun crew's organised sports meeting
(GWS) |
 A
Russian machine-gun in action in Poland
(GWS) |
 A
machine-gun in position in the Belgian second line
(GWS) |
 Allied
forces working a machine gun in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
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